Miller: Members find Clinton camp’s tactics ‘offensive’

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), speaking on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama’s (Ill.) campaign, told reporters Wednesday that congressional delegates find Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign’s tactics of warning superdelegates about Obama’s relationship with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright “offensive.”

{mosads}In an interview with TalkingPointsMemo.com, Harold Ickes, a senior Clinton adviser and longtime party insider, acknowledged that he mentions Wright when trying to persuade superdelegates.

“I tell people that they need to look at what they think Republicans may use against him,” Ickes reportedly said. “Wright comes up in the conversations.”

Miller said members of Congress, who are superdelegates, with whom he has spoken have indicated that invoking Wright’s name is “not getting [Clinton] any traction.”

“In fact, I think they find it offensive,” Miller said, adding, “I think that’s very unfortunate if that’s the tack they want to take.”